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shim⋅my

  [shim-ee] noun, plural -mies, verb, -mied, -my⋅ing.
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–noun
1. an American ragtime dance marked by shaking of the hips and shoulders.
2. excessive wobbling in the front wheels of a motor vehicle.
3. a chemise.
–verb (used without object)
4. to dance the shimmy.
5. to shake, wobble, or vibrate.
Origin:
1830–40, for def. 3; 1915–20 for def. 1; back formation and resp. of chemise, construed as a plural
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shim·my   (shĭm'ē)   
n.   pl. shim·mies

  1. Abnormal vibration or wobbling, as of the wheels of an automobile.

  2. A dance popular in the 1920s, characterized by rapid shaking of the body.

  3. A chemise.

intr.v.   shim·mied, shim·my·ing, shim·mies

  1. To vibrate or wobble abnormally.

  2. To shake the body in or as if in dancing the shimmy.


[Perhaps from shimmy, alteration of chemise.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

shimmy  (v.)
"do a suggestive dance," 1918, perhaps via phrase shake the shimmy, possibly from shimmy (n.), a U.S. dialectal form of chemise (mistaken as a plural; cf. shammy) first recorded 1837; or related to shimmer via a notion of glistening light. Transf. sense of "vibration of a motor vehicle" is from 1925.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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